Mostly because I wanted to know.
About three weeks ago I had called HealthGene to get some cards to take blood myself at home (and cut the on the price, since it's rather expensive to get sexing done by the vet). Two week-ends ago, I proceeded to take blood by means of cutting a nail a bit shorter in order to make it bleed. I did Piper and Zuri at home, since they let me handle them reasonably well (Zuri actually impressed me, I was expecting a bit of a fight but it was not the case) and I had someone at the Parrot Club meeting, which was held that Sunday, do Petey as if I had attempted to do it myself, I would have been the one to bleed.
Anyways, before sending the cards in, this is what I thought the results would be:
Piper (Lovebird) - Male
Zuri (Meyer's) - Male
Petey (Meyer's) - Female
I know I referred to Piper and Zuri as females; this was mostly out of habit. I didn't know better when I got Piper and "she/her" came out more naturally and it stucked; as I interacted more and more with people online and hearing some "horror" stories about how a female Lovebird will turn "evil" when hormones kick in and since Piper is pretty much always a sweetheart, I started to assume this was because Piper was a male...but since I was so used to using female pronouns, I continued to use them.
When I initially got Zuri, head shape and size let me to believe female. As Zuri matured...well I started thinking male. Again, used to saying "she/her" and couldn't be bothered to change.
Petey...well Petey's disposition, the way "she" acts when hormones kick in..I couldn't help to think "she" was a female...so did my boyfriend, mother, ex-owner that had "her" for a little bit and even my vet...everyone had the belief Petey was a female.
The actual results:
Piper - Male
Zuri - Male
Petey - Male
Yup..all males. So anyone who wondered if I would ever be concerned about having babies between Zuri and Petey, it's not going to happen (not that I thought they ever liked each other enough to even consider this).
So, in total, I have 4 male birds (let's not forget Joey) and one female (Shade).
Guess I don't have to worry too much about egg binding...